Carried in Sound is an emotionally evocative album textured musically, vocally and lyrically with shadows and light, like a comforting flickering candle in the depth of darkness and storms; it’s easily the best thing that the Smoke Fairies have ever done.
Featuring Dawn Landes, Sodastream, Paul Curreri, Dan Haywood’s New Hawks, Matt Sweeney & Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Yo La Tengo, Lau Nau, Skyway Man (ft Erin Rae & Spencer Cullum), Katie Macfarlane & Brìghde Chaimbeul, Erlend Apneseth Trio, Mi Mye, Owen Shiers, Bobby Lee and more.
When things begin to stagnate, the answer is to shake things up, which is what Zach Berkman needed to do on The Heart of. An album that examines that complex dance of human existence, and that endless search for connection.
Joseph Allred’s New Jerusalem shifts between the cosmic and the cosmopolitan and results in a multilayered album that is often intriguingly dense but never far away from a state of euphoria.
Featuring new music from The Furrow Collective, John Francis Flynn, Frankie Archer, You Are Wolf, Cat Power, Sufjan Stevens, Alice Gerrard, King Creosote, Henry Parker, Katie Spencer, Steven Adams, Freschard And Stanley Brinks, Bobby Lee and more.
On Sweet Revolution, the superb new album from Hannah White, the honesty of her words, music, and voice makes all the hurt within somehow beatific and transformational.
The seminal Irish group, The Bothy Band, are to perform at Celtic Connections (on 22nd January at Glasgow Royal Concert Hall), featuring Donal Lunny, Tríona ní Dhomhnaill, Matt Molloy, Paddy Keenan, Paddy Glackin and Kevin Burke. They will be joined by Seán Óg Graham on guitar.
Even among the darkest moments of Kristen Grainger & True North’s ‘Fear of Falling Stars’, there’s a light somewhere on the horizon, bringing you back to listen again and again.
Harp, the musical project of former Midlake singer Tim Smith and his wife Kathi Zung, share their new single and lyric video, “Throne Of Amber”., taken from their forthcoming album ‘Albion’.
A painter, poet, songwriter and storyteller, Lancashire’s Toria Wooff’s mystical repertoire is steeped in gothic romanticism. Don’t miss her tour dates this month.
On ‘Look Over the Wall, See the Sky’, John Francis Flynn unropes songs from their historical moorings and lets them barrel downstream…Refreshing and vividly utopian, these songs exist in liberated states that have the feel of radical statements.
On ‘Cat Power Sings Dylan’, the audience’s reaction is an outpouring of love and gratitude deservedly raining down on a timeless set of music and an artist with the depth of understanding, integrity and feeling to pull it off. What a night this must have been.
